Manchester United interim boss Ole Gunnar Solksjaer believes the race for the top four places this season will go down "to the wire" following his team's loss to Arsenal on Sunday.
Goals from Granit Xhaka and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang either side of half-time ended Solksjaer's unbeaten Premier League run at United.
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Arsenal subsequently climbed into the top four at the expense of United, leaving the Red Devils two points behind the Gunners.
"It's very tight," Solksjaer said on the race for Champions League qualification, with Tottenham just three points above United in third.
"Spurs lost, we lost, and Chelsea drew, so it's going to go down to the wire, the last few games.
"We've given ourselves a great chance to be in that fight, we're two points behind fourth, three behind third which is a great position to be in."
Xhaka's opener for Arsenal saw an uncharacteristic "mistake" from David de Gea, and Solksjaer confirmed he was disappointed with his part in the goal.
"David is disappointed every time he concedes a goal," the Norwegian confirmed.
"The ball moves so strange and it looks like it goes to David's left and it changed direction, but in the first 15, 20 minutes we were too slow and never put them under pressure.
"It's not very often you go to Arsenal and create four or five big chances that we did. They never had one really; they had a strike and a penalty - not too many chances.
"We created so many more chances today than we did when we beat them in the FA Cup. Sometimes it happens, we hit the woodwork twice and had five very big chances ourselves.
"We just had to go for it towards the end, but we were not really at it and it is one of those days where you have to dust yourselves down from.
"The referee will be disappointed when he sees it as I don't think it is a penalty. But that's the decision the referee made.
"I don't think there is enough contact to warrant a penalty. I don't think it's a dive, Fred apparently is very, very strong."
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